4/22/10 NOW: CO/TX/OK/KS

[Mike Hollingshead]

Steve Wothington just had a nice barrel, looked intense, off that storm right behind the Scott City lead one. Hard to keep up with which stream to be on.

 

[Jonathan Whitehead]

no official wording from DDC but sounds like a tornado emergency situation for Scott City, KS

EDIT: Appears the mesocyclone "donuted" just SW of Scott City such that it wrapped rain-cooled air all around itself and thus chocked off the inflow

 

[Eric Birch]

10 mi north of Paducah, TX on 70 appears to be a good location associated with shear couplet. Storm 10 mi NNW of O'Donnell and 10 mi SW of Tahoka also has couplet though weaker.

 

[Eddie Natenberg]

The Paducah, TX storm has several reports of large rain wrapped tornadoes, impressive couplet, might stay active near red river most of night?

 

[Bill Schintler]

The Paducah, TX storm has several reports of large rain wrapped tornadoes, impressive couplet, might stay active near red river most of night?

Yes, it should stay surface-based for at least another hour. Meanwhile, it is moving into an increasingly favorable environment for tornadoes. Low LCL's around 500m AGL, good (nearly) surface-based CAPE, and increasing low-level hodographs as the LLJ increases and the BL decouples slightly. I knew things would get interesting for any established storms that enter the CDS area, which had nice backed SFC flow for the last several hours (enhanced by the Red River valley) and dewpoints holding around 65F.

- bill

 

[Mike Johnston]

Doesn't the tail end of that storm near Paducah, TX look like it's taking a right turn? Paducah itself is just outside of the warning box, but I'm not sure they're out of the woods. Impressive velocity couplet, too.

 

[rdale]

sounds like a tornado emergency situation for Scott City, KS

Just curious what makes something "sound" like a TE?